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All-time Return +88.71% (in 1 year)	Risk (SD) Moderate 0.00%	Sharpe Ratio 5.3
Followers 0	Winning Picks 2 of 3	Total Views 1655

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	All-Time	1 Week	MTD	YTD
Avg Return	+88.71%	-15.69%	+59.13%	-9.28%
Sharpe Ratio	5.3	-4.12	7.39	-1.93
Risk (SD)	MID 0.00%	HIGH 3.81%	HIGH 8.00%	HIGH 5.32%

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POS Ratings:
       3 active, 0 closed
NEG Ratings:
       0 active, 0 closed
NEUTRAL Ratings:
       0 active, 0 closed

Avg Holding Time: 635.00days

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ROCK-STAR INVESTORS

Rank	Name	Sharpe Ratio	Avg Return	Followers
1	noshoes	21.10	+34.44%	381
2	Gerald Greene	18.14	+71.24%	211
3	stockmarketfunding.com	17.66	+25.60%	55
4	akiralegrand	13.47	+14.32%	62
5	anup2104	12.13	+74.22%	40

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POPULAR STOCKS

Symbol	Company Name	Sentiment
LEH	Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
CSCO	Cisco Systems Inc
GS	Goldman Sachs Group Inc The
IBM	International Business Machines Corp
RIO	Companhia Vale Do Rio Doce
RIMM	Research in Motion Ltd

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TODAY'S HEADLINES

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Cisco Systems Still a Wait and See
by Thomas Catino (Ant & Sons) about CSCO

The Merrill Lynch Diet: Starving Shareholders
by Zack Miller (BloggingStocks) about MER

Until Housing Improves, Don't Expect Stocks to Rebound
by J.D. Steinhilber (Agile Investing) about SPY

Google Blows Q2: Multiple Compression to Continue
by Henry Blodget about GOOG

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TODAY'S TOP PICKS

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CLDA		BioMed Research Reports: Clinical Data (NASDAQ: CLDA), Lpath (OTC: ... by Mike Havrilla
PARD		Biotech Stocks - Beware of The Covered Call Trap by Ivan Mutaftchiev
PBIO		Under the Radar Healthcare Stocks: Protox, Pressure BioSciences, Un... by Mike Havrilla
ISIS		ISIS - Last Tuesday's Drop Presents a Nice Buy Opportunity by Ivan Mutaftchiev

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